DBT stands for Dialectical Behavior Therapy & it is a combination of CBT (cognitive-behavioral techniques), mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies. There are 4 modules of DBT, mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. These techniques help a motherfucker manage emotions ,tolerate stress and improve their relationships. Some common mindfulness techniques include Mindful breathing,where the …
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Cutting
I think it’s important to take the time to talk about self-harm and specifically the art of cutting. If you’ve never witnessed, have knowledge or experienced the practice it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the shock of it all. In fact those who are completely unaware of mistake it for a past suicide …
Fucking up
Sometimes they aren’t no way to deny it, you just fucked up. It can be a hard pull to swallow and it comes in all shapes, sizes and costumes…but when you really fuck up, boy do you feel it on impact. What’s worse about those deep felt fuck ups is, that you never tried ,intended …
Mutherfucking Process Recordings
What in the actual fuck is a process recording you may ask? Well aside from being the absolute, most, obnoxious, biggest, pain in the dick for any a student intern just trying to survive their required hours, required readings, and weekly assignments for any of their classes….it is simply put a detailed document ment to …
Fucking Treatment Plans
Treatment plans are a fucking mood that are essentially a detailed, individualized plan developed in collaboration with a patient. It outlines the goals, objectives, and strategies for managing a patient’s specific health condition or issue. A treatment plan typically includes: Diagnosis and problem statement, short and long term goals and objectives, interventions & therapies,how …
TF-CBT
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therepay is a conjoined child and caregiver model used for children and teens experiencing clinically significant emotional and behavioral difficulties related to past traumatic events. This treatment is designed to brief , at around 12 to 20 sessions and has specific goals. They include : learning effective coping skills for the …
What in the Actual Fuck….part II
So last week I discussed the 1st experience that helped create my worst day in field….allow me to illuminate you with what clinched the shit day title. My family of demons had left my office and I had just finished cleaning up the path of destruction left in their wake when I heard the arrival …
What in the Actual Fuck
Not to brag, but when I do things, I do them big. So it should come as no surprise that my first bad day was 1 that outdid even itself, leaving me to wonder what client do I even talk about. I’ve been treating two sisters for about 4 months and they are adorable …
The lawyer & The Therapist
Protecting the best interest of a child can include so many, but sometimes people who don’t want to have anything to fucking do with each other must unite for the betterment of someone else. Sometimes those are forces that are historicaly oppositional ,sometimes they personally don’t like each other and other times it’s all about …
Healing
So, with almost a year in the field doing clinical work I have noticed some things about people in the healing process. Bare in mind they are of different backgrounds, demographics and managing different illnesses or disorders and overcoming different traumas or set backs. They also have different aspects to their process that is as …
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